...Quotables @ Bookshelf ...

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“Just be happy, and if you can’t be happy, do things that make you happy. Or do nothing with the people that make you happy.”

ESTHER EARL, THIS STAR WON’T GO OUT

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“When you love someone, you don’t want to hurt them, even if they deserve to be hurt. When you love someone, you want to hurt them, even when they don’t deserve to be hurt.”

ELLEN HOPKINS, GLASS

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“Life damages us, every one. We can’t escape that damage. But now, I am also learning this: We can be mended. We mend each other.”

VERONIA ROTH, ALLEGIANT

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“Not a word passes between us, not because we have nothing to say, but because we don’t have to say anything.”

KHALED HOSSEINI, THE KITE RUNNER

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“Love makes you see a place differently, just as you hold differently an object that belongs to someone you love. If you know one landscape well, you will look at all other landscapes differently. And if you learn to love one place, sometimes you can also learn to love another.”

ANNE MICHAELS, FUGITIVE PIECES

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“Humans waste words. They toss them like banana peels and leave them to rot. Everyone knows the peels are the best part.”

KATHERINE APPLEGATE, THE ONE AND ONLY

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“The feel of them and the smell of them. A bookshop was like an Aladdin’s cave for me. Entire worlds and lives can be found just behind that glossy cover. All you had to do was look.”

MARIAN KEYES, WATERMELON

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“Grief is like a splinter deep into every fingertip; to touch anything is torture.”

ERIN KELLY, BROADCHURCH

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“People make mistakes in life through believing too much, but they have a damned dull time if they believe too little.”

JAMES HILTON, LOST HORIZON

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Two people in love, alone, isolated from the world, that's beautiful.

— Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being: A Novel

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“And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count, it’s the life in your years.”

JAY MCLEAN, WHERE THE ROAD TAKES ME

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“We are strong and proud and beautiful and there are not enough stars in the night sky to measure our worth.”

KRISTEN SIMMONS, THE GLASS ARROW

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“You’re like a grey sky. You’re beautiful, even though you don’t want to be.”

JASMINE WARGA, MY HEART AND OTHER BLACK HOLES

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“I know how humans love. Their passion burns like a lump of sugar – quick and hot. And when the fire dies, they seek a new flame. They chase sparks instead of collecting the warmth of old embers.”

MELISSA LANDERS, INVADED

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“When people fall in love, they burst into flames.”

JANDY NELSON, I’LL GIVE YOU THE SUN

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“It was like we were all so busy trying to be happy or saying we were happy, but underneath there was nothing but bitterness, the kind that could only be bled out in ink, in unspoken word.”

ELIZABETH SCOTT, THE UNWRITTEN RULE

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“Just because you don’t say much doesn’t mean people don’t notice you. It’s actually the quiet ones who often draw the most attention. There’s this constant whirlwind of motion and sound all around, and then there’s the quiet one, the eye of the storm.”

AMY EFAW, AFTER

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“I picked up one of the books and flipped through it. Don’t get me wrong, I like reading. But some books should come with warning labels: Caution: contains characters and plots guaranteed to induce sleepiness. Do not attempt to operate heavy machinery after ingesting more than one chapter. Has been known to cause blindness, seizures and a terminal loathing of literature. Should only be taken under the supervision of a highly trained English teacher. Preferably one who grades on the curve.”

LAURIE HALSE ANDERSON, TWISTED

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“Getting lost is just another way of saying ‘going exploring.’”

JUSTINA CHEN, NORTH OF BEAUTIFUL

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“Like a word on a page that you’ve printed and read a million times, that suddenly looks strange or wrong, foreign. And you feel scared for a second, like you’ve lost something, even if you’re not sure what it is.”

SARAH DESSEN, JUST LISTEN